From: vir.campestris@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 12/04/2025 23:23, TronNerd82 wrote:   
   > On 2025-01-30, Jonathan N. Little  wrote:   
   >> I really love tech and the promise of tech, but all I have seen AI means   
   >> "Automated Idiocy". Fulfills the adage "garbage in; garbage out". Just   
   >> serves two purposes: 1) collect as much data on everyone without the   
   >> company needing to hire anyone to do it. 2) do things for the company   
   >> without anyone having to take responsibility for any transgressions, it   
   >> was just the AI. I guess I am bit jaded on all this AI crap.   
   >>   
   >>   
   > Maybe I'm just naive, but I don't see AI ever truly taking over human   
   > jobs. Tech billionaires with more money than brains might try to make it   
   > happen, but what they're left with is an enshittified product since all   
   > the people who worked to make things good were left destitute and out of   
   > a job, but soon enough these companies will have no other choice than to   
   > look their AI-generated disfigured crack baby in the eyes, and suddenly   
   > people will mysteriously have their jobs back.   
   >   
   > AI may take a few jobs, but when it starts to bug out and people realize   
   > how terrible the results are, suddenly good old-fashioned humanpower   
   > doesn't seem so bad. In any event, Facebook stopped flagging Linux as   
   > malware, but if they didn't stop, I might have just created an account   
   > solely to list distro names, but not the name "Linux" itself and see if   
   > I can speedrun getting banned :)   
   >   
   > In the end, AI is little more than a toy. Generative AI is equivalent to   
   > connect-the-dots on a computational level, but massively enshittified   
   > and ugly in its results, and LLMs are basically just an   
   > encyclopedia/search engine for people who jump on the latest hype   
   > trains. I never use either for anything serious beyond pointing and   
   > laughing at how such things are legitimately considered truly useful   
   > products. It amuses me to no end :)   
   >   
      
   AI will get better. (Right now I agree it's ****)   
      
   I'm sure back in the day the weavers never thought they'd lose their   
   jobs to machines.   
      
   Andy   
      
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   Ghandi.   
      
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